"Fellow Daoist Lu, please come out quickly! Don't keep me on edge anymore, okay?" Ancestor Red Leaf pleaded. He was truly worried that Lu Xuan would fail to break through his cultivation realm and perish, and then he too would be annihilated.
Old Master Hongye was so aggrieved he almost cried.
You bastard Lu Xuan.
Is a breakthrough really that good?
Why is there no movement? He's so scared he's about to have a heart attack.
Hearing the provocation from Tianhan Saint and the others opposite, Xiao Ling'er mustered her courage and angrily retorted:
"What kind of holy sons and daughters are they? Taking advantage of others in their time of need makes them righteous cultivators?"
Upon hearing this, Tianhan Saint Son sneered:
"In our cultivation world, it's a dog-eat-dog world. If you try to reason with people, you'll probably die faster than anyone else!"
Yes, in the world of cultivation, the strong are respected!
Superior strength is the only justification.
Moreover, they are the holy sons and daughters of the nine major sects and the Righteous Path Alliance, all of whom are geniuses with heavenly spiritual roots, including some cultivators with thunder, wind, and ice spiritual roots!
"How can you establish yourself in the Righteous Path Alliance if you offend us?" Heavenly Cold Saint Son sneered.
"Your name is Xiao Ling'er, right? I find you to be exceptionally beautiful. How about becoming my concubine? After you attain the Dao and form your core, I can help you establish your foundation. I believe you won't refuse!"
Unexpectedly, Xiao Ling'er immediately refused upon hearing this:
"Impossible! You must be dreaming! How could I possibly become your concubine? Who do you think you are? Compared to Fellow Daoist Lu, you're nothing more than someone who shines his shoes! You're not even worthy!"
"What? How dare you!" Heavenly Cold Saint Son was enraged.
Taking advantage of the fact that those Core Formation cultivators hadn't arrived yet.
The Holy Son of Heavenly Cold was about to attack Xiao Ling'er, saying, "Now that I've imprisoned you, you might as well go back and be my concubine. Do you really have to wait for that Lu Xuan?"
“I don’t think he can get out,” said the Holy Son of Heavenly Cold.
He unleashed a top-grade magic weapon, which flew towards Xiao Ling'er.
"Be careful!" Ding Jiuhan warned.
Old Ancestor Hongye was furious:
"We are both Foundation Establishment cultivators, are we afraid of them? Fellow Daoist Ding Jiuhan, shall we join forces to repel the enemy?"
"Good, that's exactly what I was thinking. I want to see just how strong this so-called Holy Son really is."
Ding Jiuhan is the same as the Red Leaf Ancestor.
They all came from small towns and villages.
He had been fortunate enough to break through to the Foundation Establishment realm for many years.
They didn't take this Heavenly Cold Saint Son, who had just broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm, seriously at all.
"Hmph, two mere Foundation Establishment cultivators with three spiritual roots! They dare to attack this Holy Son? Five Spiritual Thunderfire Technique!"
Tianhan Shengzi let out a cold shout.
He unleashed countless bolts of lightning and fire from his hands.
Its power is so great that it can kill a cultivator in the early stage of Foundation Establishment.
Old Ancestor Hongye and Ding Jiuhan were no match for each other and were defeated in a sorry state, with even their Taoist robes being burned!
"What should we do, Fellow Daoist Ancestor Red Leaf?" Ding Jiuhan was a little scared.
They even had some intention to back down.
Although Ancestor Red Leaf also wanted to retreat, his life and death were already in Lu Xuan's hands.
"Xiao Ling'er, is it! Your beauty is a rare sight even in our Righteous Path Alliance, truly exceptional! Come with me, and I'll give you a chance to establish your foundation! How could you possibly establish your foundation by following that insignificant rogue cultivator, Lu Xuan?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Ling'er angrily retorted, "Impossible! Give up! You're just a mere Holy Son, do you know that Lu Xuan's master is Senior Wuchenzi, who is at the mid-stage of Core Formation!"
"Heh, mid-stage Core Formation?" Heavenly Cold Saint Son chuckled.
"And do you know who my master is?"
Immediately afterwards, the Holy Son of Heavenly Cold smiled and said smugly:
"My master is Elder Lin, a late-stage Core Formation cultivator at the Great Perfection realm, and the Core Formation Grand Elder of the Righteous Path Alliance! A mere cultivator below the Nascent Soul stage! What makes you think you can compare to me, a dignified Holy Son of the Righteous Path Alliance?"
"This..." Xiao Ling'er had no way to refute it.
The other party is incredibly powerful!
Can Lu Xuan withstand it?
Besides, I heard that the battle of magic has been cancelled.
Will Wuchenzi, who is in the mid-stage of Core Formation, still support Lu Xuan?
I'm afraid not!
After all, offending the Core Formation Elder for this would be too much for Wuchenzi, who is cunning and calculating. How could he possibly offend Elder Lin for Lu Xuan's sake?
Xiao Ling'er couldn't help but worry about Lu Xuan.
"I'll give you three breaths. If you still don't submit to me, the Holy Son of Heavenly Cold, then I'll have no choice but to kill you on the spot!"
"Yeah?"
At that very moment.
Lu Xuan's voice came from inside the Longevity Primordial Spirit Cave.
Immediately afterwards, Lu Xuan, dressed in a clean Taoist robe, experienced a surge in his aura and a meteoric rise in his demeanor.
Lu Xuan walked out calmly, his aura clearly indicating that he was already at the early stage of Foundation Establishment!
Lu Xuan smiled slightly and said:
"I wondered who it was, but it's you, my defeated foe! Heavenly Cold Saint, in the secret realm, my flying sword almost pierced your dantian, crippling your cultivation! Now, taking advantage of my absence, you come to my friends to show off your power? Are you a bully who picks on the weak and fears the strong? You're truly disgusting!"
It turns out, we were in the secret realm before.
Tianhan Saint also wanted to compete for Lu Xuan's spiritual vein cave, since the spiritual vein beneath Lu Xuan's cave was of the highest grade! It could increase cultivation speed several times over.
However, although Lu Xuan was only at the fourteenth level of Qi Refining at the time, a sword qi he casually unleashed was enough to repel the Heavenly Cold Saint and severely injure him.
This made the other holy sons and daughters dare not disturb Lu Xuan anymore.
After all, the strength of the Heavenly Cold Saint is among the best in their class!
Even the Holy Son of Heavenly Cold was no match for Lu Xuan; they simply avoided him whenever they saw him.
now.
Tianhan Saint saw that Lu Xuan had broken through to the Foundation Establishment realm.
But he remained very arrogant:
"Your Foundation Establishment realm is different from mine. You are only a Foundation Establishment cultivator with five spiritual roots, and you don't even have a spiritual weapon!"
"A magical artifact?"
Lu Xuan had never heard of the concept of spiritual artifacts before!
The old patriarch Hongye, who had been with the Righteous Path Alliance for many years, explained via telepathy:
"Spiritual artifacts are above even the highest-grade magical artifacts! Only when a highest-grade magical artifact develops sentience can it be called a spiritual artifact! The stronger the artifact spirit, the more powerful the spiritual artifact! However, most artifact spirits are the souls of demonic beasts, and the success rate of imbuing them into magical artifacts is not high. Therefore, only high-level cultivators have the confidence to forge spiritual artifacts!"
"Can that spiritual artifact compare to a magic weapon?" Lu Xuan asked the Red Leaf Ancestor telepathically.
"That's naturally incomparable," explained Ancestor Red Leaf.
"You can think of it this way: a low-grade spiritual artifact is essentially a top-grade magic artifact with the soul of a demon beast at the peak of the Qi Refining realm added to it. After the combination, a low-grade spiritual artifact is equivalent to the power of two or three top-grade magic artifacts!"
Of course, if you can incorporate a demon beast soul at the early Foundation Establishment stage, you can advance to a mid-grade spiritual weapon, then a high-grade spiritual weapon, and finally a top-grade spiritual weapon! These correspond to demon beast souls at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, late-Foundation Establishment stage, and peak Foundation Establishment stage, respectively!
I see.
No wonder this Heavenly Cold Saint is so fearless.
It seems that his master, Elder Lin, had given him a low-grade spiritual artifact before.
With a loud shout, the Holy Son of Heavenly Cold unleashed a small golden sword from his high-grade storage pouch. This sword, named the [Soul-Separating Sword], was devastating. Anyone below the mid-Foundation Establishment stage could easily have their primordial spirit severed by this sword, resulting in death and the dissipation of their cultivation!
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